A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
-- Rupert Brooke
First, the legend:
Family #1 - Neighbors directly to the left. Father likes to drive his jeep offroad in the desert, break it, come home and fix it with Father of Family #4. Mother was close friends with the Mother that used to own our house. Boy and girl kids are ~7 & 9.
Family #2 - Neighbors directly to the right. They have the barking dog.
Family #3 - Neighbors two to the left. Father is a US Marshal and Army Reserve. Mother is all up in the neighborhood news. Oldest son is 15. Younger son is ~12.
Family # 4 - Neighbors three to the left. Father owns a pool cleaning business and likes to break his jeep out in the desert with Father #1. Don't know anything about Mother and kids.
Turns out Mr. C and I were correct about Family #2. They are renters. I should say... They WERE renters. They're moving out. We're very happy about that. They kept to themselves, which was nice, but they didn't keep up their front yard and.... the dog. We don't have an HOA here, thankfully, but there is an unspoken rule to keep a certain level of maintenance. Family #4 has even offered to let us borrow their pressure sprayer to clean the dirt off the stucco on the house from the last rains.
We were talking to Mother #3. She told us that most of the neighbors have called the police about Family #2's dog multiple times. The owner of the mobile home behind us has also called the police. Apparently the rule is to call the non-emergency line and get the incident number.
Now we know.
The family is moving. Now a new family will get to be trained. Hopefully they'll be nice.
In Dreams
14 years ago
